Urban Planning Education

Andrea I Frank is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University with teaching expertise in physical planning, graphic presentation, urban design studio, comparative international planning and public participation in plan-making amongst others. Andrea has been awarded Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy in acknowledgement of her engagement and competencies in pedagogy in Built Environment disciplines. As subject coordinator and co-director of the Centre for Education of the Built Environment (CEBE) from 2000 – 2011, she has run numerous workshops, organized conferences, published and conducted research on topics such as work-based learning, creative problem-solving, internationalization, employability, and entrepreneurship. From 2007 – 2013 she has served on the Association of European Schools of Planning Executive Board and on AESOP’s Excellence in Teaching and Learning Prize jury. She has co-chaired with fellow co-editor Christopher Silver the council of the Global Planning Education Association Network.Christopher Silver, FAICP is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, whose areas of teaching include international development planning, planning history and sustainable urbanism. He also has held academic and administrative appointments at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1979 to 1998 and the University of Illinois, 1998-2006.  He served for three years as urban development advisor to Indonesia under a U.S. Agency for International Development project. His international experience in Indonesia began in 1989 with a Fulbright Senior Lectureship at the University of Indonesia, and continued with two subsequent Fulbright scholarships in 1992 and 2004 at the Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia. He has spent over 20 years researching urban development and decentralization in that country. He is author or co-author of five books, including Planning the Megacity: Jakarta, Indonesia in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2008) and Planning and Decentralization:  Contested Spaces for Action in the Global South, with V. Beard and F. Miraftab (Taylor & Francis, 2008) as well as numerous articles, chapters, book reviews, paper presentations and speeches. He is currently completing a monograph tentatively entitled, Four Centuries of Water Management in Jakarta: Toward Sustainability in a Megacity. He has held major positions in several national professional organizations, previously as co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and founding editor (2001 – 2016) of the Journal of Planning History, and President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Society for American City and Regional Planning.

• Introduction.- Section I – Beginnings.- The origins of planning education: overview.- The department of civic design at Liverpool university and its lever professors: influence and wider legacies.- Educating planners at MIT: eight decades of changing cities.- Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and the internationalization of planning education.- Six decades of planning education in China:  those planned and unplanned.- Tertiary education and post-war reconstruction: the first Australian planning programs.- Planning education in Brazil.- Section II – Emerging global movement.- Adapting, shifting, defining new roles: education for a maturing professional field.- Partnerships in planning education: the association of African planning schools (AAPS).- Planning paradigm shift in the era of transition from urban development to management: the case of Korea.- Development of planning education in post-communist Poland.- Advancing education for planning professionals in Estonia – Between new qualitiesand path-dependency.- Planning education in Bangladesh.- The roles of planning education in the decentralization & democratization era:  lessons from Indonesia.- Section III – charting future trends.- Envisioning the future of planning and planning education.- Educational partnerships for innovation in communities (EPIC):  harnessing university resources to create change.- The collaborative interdisciplinary studio.- Planning education with and through technologies.- Educating code-switchers in a post-sustainability world.- Are planning programs delivering what planning students need?  perspectives on planning education from practitioners.- Conclusion.

“Their book does many things very well. … international connections between universities, other institutions, and individual educators, have played a part in the development of planning education in a number of countries and institutions. Another strength is the editing. This is an edited book that honours the term; Frank and Silver have clearly worked hard at crafting the book’s coherence. … every reader interested in the education of planners is likely to find something to enjoy.” (Huw Thomas, Planning Theory & Practice, Vol. 19 (5), 2018)“In three sections, the rich, voluminous compendium informs the reader about the origins of urban planning education, the experience of educating planners in selected countries and future trends of planning education. … The compendium is a rich source of information on the state of the art of planning education around the world. … libraries in planning schools should keep it in stock and provide easy access to the compendium.” (Klaus R. Kunzmann, disP - The Planning Review, Vol. 54 (2), 2018)